WiC Weekly: August 9-15
By WiC Staff
From a peek behind the scenes of The Wheel of Time to reexamining Star Trek to new takes on Game of Thrones, here’s what happened round WiC this week!
It’s time for WiC Weekly, where we walk you through the most interesting pop culture stories to emerge in the past seven days. Get ready.
Let’s start with a new look behind the scenes of Amazon’s adaptation of The Wheel of Time!
Info continues to trickle out about Amazon’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic The Wheel of Time series: https://t.co/aokqkNKP2X
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
Star Trek is a series with a very long history, and not all the episodes have been winners:
Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker) look back on an early, embarrassing episode. “Can you imagine playing that right now in this climate?” https://t.co/MGKw63KIPp
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
Another Game of Thrones cast member revealed this week that they survived COVID-19:
Jonathan Pryce, who played the crafty High Sparrow on Game of Thrones, was hospitalized due to complications from COVID-19. Happily, he pulled through. https://t.co/IbLrYeco1j
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
Speaking of Game of Thrones, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is out there promoting his new movie The Silencing, which means a new round of fresh sound bites:
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) misses his friends from Game of Thrones, but doesn’t sound like he’d return. “I think we’ve told the story.” https://t.co/BdSY0UsHjB
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
David Tennant is definitely among geekdom’s greatest living icons, and if he has his way, his cred will continue to go up:
If Doctor Who icon David Tennant can get on Harry Potter AND Star Trek, he’ll get close to achieving nerd nirvana. https://t.co/O5kTO7SpSX
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
Have you read Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman? If not, we think you should, and here’s why:
The Sandman is an elegantly written epic by Neil Gaiman. Get to know one of the most beloved comics of all time before Netflix takes it live-action! https://t.co/dUIYP6biMF
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
Not much to say about this one; you just have to see it for yourself.
I can’t decide if George R.R. Martin looks horrifying or awesome is his new colorful face mask. You be the judge. https://t.co/d19OZhleTp
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
CBS All Access has Star Trek TV shows popping off all over the place. The movies are in a trickier spot. Care to take a pitch from Quentin Tarantino?
Paramount is at a crossroads on where to take the Star Trek movie franchise. One option: Quentin Tarantino directs a movie about space gangsters. https://t.co/LnHlawNBn4
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
Yes, please:
The art director on the new Dune movie thinks it’ll do for movies today what The Lord of the Rings did for them in the early 2000s. https://t.co/YdD5XObMOH
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
Finally, we peer into the deep darkness of dire superhero fights in movies. Take a look with us:
Superheroes fight supervillains: it is known. But with many superhero movies out there, not every fight is a winner. And some are downright dire. https://t.co/MYFfsBEba0
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 16, 2020
What a week! We’ll see you again soon.
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